Research is Like Oil Prospecting
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.
Notes:
You will strike a new idea somewhere.
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'Industrial Prospecting', an address to the Founder Societies of Engineers
